The Urban Household Sample of the 1860 United States Census
was designed to supplement the Bateman-Foust rural sample with
observations from urban areas. The sample covers both northern and
southern towns and cities and permits examination of female occupations
and labor force participation rates. Information on individuals
includes occupation, city of residence, age, sex, race, dollar value of
real and personal property owned, whether American or foreign born, and
literacy. The second release of this collection adds nine constructed
variables,... (more info)

The Urban Household Sample of the 1860 United States Census
was designed to supplement the Bateman-Foust rural sample with
observations from urban areas. The sample covers both northern and
southern towns and cities and permits examination of female occupations
and labor force participation rates. Information on individuals
includes occupation, city of residence, age, sex, race, dollar value of
real and personal property owned, whether American or foreign born, and
literacy. The second release of this collection adds nine constructed
variables, including several weight variables, collapsed occupation,
ICPSR state code, region, and unique internal family and household
identifier numbers.

Access Notes

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Scope of Study

Universe:
All individuals living in towns with populations of 3,000
or more who were enumerated in the 1860 Census of Population Manuscript
Schedules.

Data Types:
census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

Nathanial T. Wilcox of the University of Chicago
collaborated with Jon Moen for the second release of the data
collection.

Methodology

Sample:
Stratified random sample.

Data Source:

United States Bureau of the Census 1860 Manuscript
Schedules

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1989-03-03

Version History:

2009-07-24 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.